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- Resilience of rural communities to climatic accidents: a need to scale up socio-environmental safety nets (Madagascar, Haiti)
- L. Bockel;M. Thoreux;S., D. Sayagh / EASYPol , 2009
- Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities.&nb...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: the definition of poverty
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- The aim of this training module is to briefly illustrate the main approaches to define poverty, distinguishing relative and absolute concepts. After reporting and discussing the definition of poverty ...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: relative poverty lines
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- This training module illustrates how to define relative poverty lines - those based on approaches that consider the welfare position of each individual or household in relation to the welfare position...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: generalised poverty gap measures
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- This training module deals with generalised poverty gap measures, particularly those poverty measures based on the definition of the poverty gap. The analysis facilitated the possibility to investigat...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: distributional poverty gap measures
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- Distributional poverty measures have the common characteristics of including a measure of inequality among the poor in the poverty index. This means that, even though in different ways, the poverty le...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: basic poverty measures
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- This training module describes two of the most commonly used poverty measures in applied policy works - the headcount ratio (HR) and the poverty gap ratio (PG).After providing a conceptual backgrou...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: axioms for poverty measurement
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- This training module illustrates on what basis a poverty index should be chosen. In particular, it discusses the desirable properties that a poverty index should respect. These desirable properties ar...
- Impacts of policies on poverty: absolute poverty lines
- L.G. Bellù; P. Liberati / EASYPol , 2005
- Examining concepts like food energy intake (FEI), cost of basic needs (CBN), consumption insufficiency method (CI), and budget standard method (BS), this paper argues that poverty lines may be defined...
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